Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by William Quiller Orchardson, William Corden the Elder and John Watson Gordon. The criminal classes of London described by the man who had run the Metropolitan Police CID and the prison service - the confidence tricksters, the forgers, the spies of the war and the people who confessed to crimes they had not committed. This edition adds a gallery of 59 plates after Hogarth, Doré, Blake Richmond and others, alongside 11 illustrations restored and coloured for this printing.